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How to diagnose appcast parsing error

Asked by David M

I've updated my appcast. When the application checks for an update, it fails. All I get in the log is:

Sparkle Error: An error occurred in retrieving update information. Please try again later.
Sparkle Error (continued): An error occurred while parsing the update feed.

How can I figure out what it doesn't like without wading deep into the code?

Thanks

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Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#1

That probably means there's a simple XML error. Try just running an XML linter—see if you've got imbalanced tags or something.

Otherwise, post the appcast here.

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David M (enki1711) said : 		#2

Appcast is at http://www.broadreachsoftware.com/appcast/ArchiveMac.xml

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Best Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak) said : 		#3

Ah. You need a sparkle:version attribute on your <enclosure>—Sparkle can't tell what version your update is. That should probably give a better error message.

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David M (enki1711) said : 		#4

Thanks Andy Matuschak, that solved my question.